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What is the 100th term in the sequence 23, 21, 19, 17, 15 ....?
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User Tom Ritter
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Answer:

you keep subtracting 2 every time, that's the pattern

User Ddnv
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Hey there!

We can see we are subtracting 2 every time, and we have 95 terms left fo figure out, so we multiply 95 by 2 and get 190, then subtract that from 15.

15 - 190 = -175, therefore, that's the the 100th term.

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